What small DFW things will you do this week? w/c 16/01

maria3104

Hi all

Been in bed for 5 days with flu. 5 consecutive nsd. Not sure they should count really as an achievement ��

Eating from stores. Dd should shop tomorrow after a uni exam and top up the fridge.

Keep smiling all.

M

1LuckyLady

YorkshireLass & Maria, I'm sending you both one of those dodgy hugs!
:grouphug:

This friend of my son's can come again... he's very easy going and ate the food on offer!
They all agreed on pizza, so I got my ys co0p pizza's out of the freezer, added some chorizo from the freezer on the table I put chopped cucumber & carrot batons and some sweetcorn (my two had some veg the friend didn't) They've had a chocolate bar each, well that was one of my 1p Malteaser reindeers from co0p at the weekend. I'm just waiting for some fairy cakes to cook and they can have one of those too. Normally when its a friend over I have to go to the shop to buy certain things that I know they will eat but as this week I'm trying to keep my purse firmly shut this has worked out really well

foxgloves

Awww - Yorkshire Lass - If my posts ate even a tiny bit helpful, that's good to know. I have spent most of my adult life (from age 19 to early 40s) as a silly spender who lived constantly outside her means, never budgeted & frittered money away like crazy. I was footloose & fancyfree in a big city for a long time & shopping was a big hobby! When I hooked up with the lovely mr f, I realised I'd got together with someone who had the same useless approach to money as me! In fact, he had more debt than me because my parents were able to bail me out a good few times, whereas his were not. So we continued frittering money away together! My LBM kind of arrived after I'd started a very rudimentary (cr*p!!) kind of budgeting & for some reason, I added up all the monthly debt repayments & was shocked into action. We'd often sit around moaning that we couldn't afford things & here was the reason!! So we started paying it down (mr f got on board with it about 3 months after me when he saw my debts starying to reduce dramatically. We feel better off financially now even though our income halved 5 years ago with my redundancy. But you say I am practical? That's the daftest thing. I AM very practical & have always cooked from scratch, made things, grown things, recycled & repurposed, etc, but for some reason, I used to do all that while still spending money like water!! Before I left home to become a student, I had been quite good at saving. I had the money saved up to buy a motorbike & leathers as soon as I arrived at uni. I put this off till the spring to avoid learning to ride it in the bad weather, but by then, I had spent all of my motorbike money on cr*p & that was the start of the overdraft I had until I was in my early 40s!!
You couldn't make it up! But I'm angeluc these days xxx

foxgloves

Maria - sorry to hear you have flu..Mine lasted 2 weeks. I soooooo hope yours is soon.on its way. Take care.
F x

allydowd

Renewed DW's driving licence online. This cost £14. It's £21 if you do it at the Post Office and there's no need to supply a photo as it takes the image from your passport.

determined_new_ms

allydowd wrote: »

Renewed DW's driving licence online. This cost £14. It's £21 if you do it at the Post Office and there's no need to supply a photo as it takes the image from your passport.

OMG the horror of my passport photo following me around for another 10 years :eek:

forced myself to go for a run when oh got home from work. It's a hard slog getting back into running after the looooooooooooooooooooooongest interlude

1LuckyLady

Good evening all,
It ended up being a good day all in all and I completed my list plus
* Managed a nsd (10th of the month )
* Made fairy cakes from stores for dessert
* The kids all had ys pizza for tea and I sliced some choritzo from the freezer on the top
* Wore my glasses all day rather then my lenses, will save my lenses for when I'm back to the gym classes next month. Glasses are ok for walking on the treadmill. I reduced my lense scheme after breaking my wrist last year and not being able to put them in and don't want to have to increase it again just yet
* Used a hm soup that wasn't very nice to make a base for a slow cooker curry. None of us liked the soup but as you know I don't like to waste anything so I froze it. Hubby doesn't know what went into the curry tonight but he's really enjoyed it and gone back for seconds
* Renewed library books online
* Claimed a £5 amaz0n voucher from a survey site

Finishing the day in a lot better mood then I started Love this thread

FatVonD

The photo on my railcard is 14 years old, I always fully expect to be stopped for using someone else's card every time I use it :rotfl:

Following on from the earlier discussion, we don't eat nearly enough fruit (or veg for that matter) but if I buy the affordable fruits like apples they go to waste. I do always make sure we have lots of fruit juice in the house though otherwise I feel like a bad mother and I buy soft fruit whenever it's on offer or reduced. I suppose there's all sorts of fruit and veg hidden in other stuff, I always bulk out bolognese sauce with veg and even pesto has 'some' greenery in it :rotfl:

Nothing very exciting happening in my world, it's a bit like when someone buys you a diary when you're 11 and it's all 'got up, had breakfast' They are doing essential maintenance to the server tonight so we had to log out by 6pm again which was a real hardship , that's about the most exciting thing that's happened today!

Breakfast was a cup of soup and lunch was the rest of my YS posh sausage rolls. We went to the chippy for dinner tonight but kept it cheap.

I have cried off another work night out (bowling) and someone asked if there's something I 'would' come along to if they organised it (they may be thinking of my leaving do) so I've suggested a Cuban restaurant I like that has BOGOF jugs of sangria in happy hour

Have a lovely evening all

FatVonD

1luckylady, I save my contact lenses just for going out socially (even then it's a pain because I can't read menus with them in.)

I had been putting them in when I got up then had to put reading glasses over the top to read on the train and then different glasses to use the computer at work and then I'd take them out when I got home to let my eyes breathe. I realised I was paying for disposable lenses just to walk to and from the station each end!

1LuckyLady

FatVonD, aw It was nice of them to ask if there was something you'd go to Contact lenses work out very expensive that way! I don't like wearing my glasses as I always end up steamed up and definitely can't do a gym class wearing them but figured that the treadmill was ok.

Dawn, I hope your son has settled in ok x